Business

Spend my pretties! Spend!

Our Chiefly Leader commands that you stay in town this easter and blow your stimulus locally.

The print, television and radio advertising campaign is similar to the one conducted prior to last Christmas, encourages Canberrans to shop locally and spend time in the ACT over the Easter long weekend.

“Due to the current global economic situation, it is important that the ACT Government continues to actively support the local business community in any way we can. We need to work together to help cushion our businesses, and their employees, from any significant decline in consumer confidence, and Canberrans spending their money locally is one way that we can all help,” Mr Stanhope said

The campaign will run from 23 March to 5 April 2009 in all local media and is designed to coincide with the payment of the Federal Government’s Back-to-School Bonus, the Single Income FamilyBonus and the $900 Tax Bonus for Working Families.

“The ‘one off’ government payments will mean that many Canberrans will have a little extra to spend and we’d like to see some of this money being spent in our local retail and hospitality outlets”, Mr Stanhope said.

Lord Stanhope suggests you have a holiday at home by attending the National Folk Festival, something we can agree on.

A little disappointing to see the recipients of the advertising loot though:

Mr stanhope can ask us to spend the windfall we got from the govt locally. I disagree with the idea of blowing nearly $1,000 on frippery to appease him. That payment has been spent on local industry. Telstra and Actew bills. That will keep me and my non working wife and 3 kids with a phone and power, water etc.

are we a working family? I work, my wife looks after 3 kids. I have the better part of the deal.

Actually you would have paid those things anyway, so an economist would take that into account when considering where this money has ‘gone’. What you do with the money that you would have put onto those bills but now have spare, is essentially the affect of the stimulus.

Mr stanhope can ask us to spend the windfall we got from the govt locally. I disagree with the idea of blowing nearly $1,000 on frippery to appease him. That payment has been spent on local industry. Telstra and Actew bills. That will keep me and my non working wife and 3 kids with a phone and power, water etc.

are we a working family? I work, my wife looks after 3 kids. I have the better part of the deal.

When reading my reply ant you should know that I as a member of the Liberal Party, think that Lindsay Tanner is one of my favourite Federal politicians. I think he is one of the most intelligent, decent, and able people in our current House and Senate. Even though he badmouthed Milton Friedman and Arthur Laffer in that interview (which I thought was uncouth and false), I and many of the more intelligent members of the Liberal Party rate him highly.

It wasn’t Tanner, it was Hockey. He just did not have anything to say and it had nothing to do with Tanner’s performance or the questions of the interviewer. It was distraction and misdirection at its finest. It was ‘talk gibberish till they run out of time’ politics. It was appalling. That interview was a gift to Tanner wrapped in a pretty little box.

I was very disappointed with his performance on Lateline against Tanner just before he got the promotion.

It’s unusual for Hockey to do badly as he’s an entertaining fellow. But I think this speaks to Tanner’s considerable talent. IMO, Tanner is one of the most able people in parliament, he’s a clear thinker, wheras Hockey tends to be a bit all mouth and trousers.

Tanner, for instance, was one of the few in parliament to speak up about the inequity of taking from the childless to give to the childed, made some very clear points about it. I guess now they’re in government, he has to support the current policy but it’s nice to think that, behind closed doors, he’s one of those questioning the bandwagon.

jakez: so you couldn’t answer any of my questions and you have no idea how to do better yourself but you just know they are doing a bad job. OK.

Don’t get me wrong Cletus, the points you raised make for interesting debate in the right hands, however I just found the irreconcilable conflict between your your complaints and solution extremely interesting. I again note that you have not responded to the points that I have chosen to engage you on.